Wichita eagle., 1887-04-24
PRESSED BRICK.
Plant with a Capacity OF $4,000
Per Day LC Gated South
east OF City.
Capacity Soon to be Increased to
100000 Per Day -Cherry-Red
Brick Of the Best
Quality.

Some months ago gentleman from New
! York visited this city, and in few days de
cided that brick would be in great demand
| for some time. The cry was long and per.
sistent for brick all the time, and the scheme
presented itself to him that brick yard
would be profitable investment.
He was experienced in brick making and
commenced looking about for vein Of clay
suited to the enterprise. Near three and
one-half miles southeast from the corner OF
Douglas and Hydraulic avenues he found
what would be called potter clay. The
vein is near twenty feet deep and contains
no defective streaks. Another vein was
found near one mile from that point on Mr..
Newman's land. 1t had some of the quail
ties of fire clay. The two were subjected to
test taken separately and by mixing them.
The best result was gained by using one part
of the re-clayish clay to two pats of the
other.
The combination gives when burned, a
Gerry red brick and pronounced Of superior
merit When experiment showed that the
combination was one altogether desirable, a
company was formed, styled Durley. CARR
son & Co. They went quietly about their
business, telling 10 one of the proposed fu-
ture developments, but worked all the same
A reporter visited the plant yesterday and
found brick being made at the rate OF $4,000
per day and never looking up for Sunday as
long as Wichita and the great Southwest
continues to boom. The plant Is located at
the base Of a gentle slope in which the clay
Ou'crops Men were at work throwing the
cay into carts to which was attached dig
nified mule. The load, after series Of la>h-
well meaning 'cussin, reac he S the top Of an
incline and is dumped With it
is mixed the fire clay in the
proportion as mentioned 1t is then
dumped into the crusher which makes five
hundred revolutions per minute. The clay
is well "trturated' and reaches the base of
an elevator near twenty five feet long and
sahting at eli an angle OF forty five degrees
1t is carried to the top of the elevator and
falls into the | rick machine. It is there sub
JSttd ~ hotti anu Gbt SpIIl'.cttiJ
mixed bt fore eaching the base OF rhe cylin-
der. At the base it is forced through dies.
making long bars Of clay. These are cut in
to proper length and moved to the racks in
he she'd. -Four men are kept busy cutting
the brick and two place them in the rack.
The shed has capacity Of $4,000. The
green brick are allowed to remain
there nearly six days and then re-
moved to the kins where they
are finished None Of the kilns
have as yet been built, but
hands are at work on the same and they viii
be ready for use in a few days.
The brick machine was to,d TO the CON-
pany by MIR Lew 1horne, Of Wabash, Ind.
representing J. w. Penfield & Co, of Will
oughby, Ohio. Another will arrive in few
weeks giving the plant q capacity Of 10000
TIE entire plant when completed cost near
S2j1 ,0C0 and employ near one hundred hands
As soon as iron for track arrives the ser
vice of the mules who seem to be a more IF
importance of the occasion, will be dispensed
with and the clay brought up the incline IN
cars pulled by cable. The engine running
the brick machine is forty horse power
and boiler sixty horse.